Before Sunset | | Cast : | Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy | | Director : | Richard Linklater | | Studio : | Warner Independent Pictures | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen | | Released Date : | , 2004 | | DVD Released Date : | February 08, 2005 | | Language : | English (Dubbed), French (Dubbed), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled) | | Audience Rating : | R (Restricted) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | August 09, 2005 | | Summary | After Sunset.. Darkness | Content
 | With an Academy Award Nomination for Best Screenplay, BEFORE SUNSET deserved a look. A sequel to the stylistically similar BEFORE SUNRISE, it is a chamber film that gives two performers 80 minutes to talk about a plethora of topics.
While the topics sometimes feel forced, the film is extremely thought provoking and challenging. Although I personally disagree with most of the characters logic - its very left coast intelligentsia - I appreciate the `matured' outlook of the characters since their previous meeting nine years earlier.
Some call the film a romance. If so, it is definitely a new type of romance. Both characters are in an uncomfortable place in life, one definitely inappropriate for a romance to occur. All they seem to have in common is a shared political stance and the memory of a train ride years earlier. Romance is quickly cut down to a ridiculous pastime. I found the film a terrible date movie as it tarnishes many of the emotions that a young couple is most likely dealing with...
Like the film, the DVD is very sparse. The film is only 80 minutes. Most reviews seem to give the film glowing reviews. But, I hope that readers are a bit more discriminating when reading them as the film is a very different beast than the reviews can make you expect. |
| Rating | | | Date | August 02, 2005 | | Summary | Just perfect | Content
| "Before Sunset" is a sequel to the simple love story "Before Sunrise." This time, Jesse and Celine only have an hour and a half in which to get reacquainted, catch up, and go from there. The film is set on a gorgeous afternoon in Paris where golden light spills onto every rooftop and alleyway. Like the light, this film has a transitory brilliance that must be taken in slowly, gently, to appreciate all the different nuances and layers taken to create it. What makes this film work so amazingly is its simplicity; these characters walk around, discuss everything from world politics to the meaning of life, and realize how important they are to eachother. From that is borne the film's main strength- we care so much about these people that their pending seperation creates an overwhelming amount of tension, making the film consistently entertaining and a joy to watch. There is also a well-executed sense of melancholy with Jese and Celine, apparent through great acting and writing. They meet, get coffee, talk, wander around, and all the while chance and fate continue to work, until the ending arrives on a note of beauty and complete grace. A deeply good film. |
| Rating | | | Date | July 27, 2005 | | Summary | also awesome | Content
| a great follow up to Linklater's "Before Sunrise" and i would recommend both to anyone! |
| Rating | | | Date | July 27, 2005 | | Summary | Gorgeous in every way | Content
| I was captivated with every moment of this film. I loved it so much that when I saw it for the first time in the theatre, I went back to see it again a few nights later. I love films about conversation but this one will go down as my all time favorite. The acceleration of both their lives was perfect, believable and exactly how I would have imagined them, that many years later. The missed meeting at the train was handled as perfectly as it could be. The way the film handled integrating the previous story into the present made this film a complete package (but of course I went back immediately and viewed my DVD of Before Sunrise).
I bought this film as soon as it was released to DVD. It is such a feelgood film for me...a beacon of hope, a quiet love poem, a spark of light in a dark world.
It is so real it almost makes one feel voyeuristic watching it. Which is part of the unfolding surprise.
And that ending. There will never be an ending to a movie that will compare to this one. I was left smiling for days...remembering.
Thank you for this beautiful film. |
| Rating | | | Date | July 22, 2005 | | Summary | PERFECT FOLLOW UP... | Content
| ... to Before Sunrise 1995. As with the first 1, it is NEVER hard to identify yourself with Jesse and Celine and the film is a small epilogue to the 1995 film. Nevertheless, we don`t need a third outing:-) |
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